Coil

midsummer and the rose is dead after being married to a stake

a creature that having sunk from want of spirit died pretty

no one is awake beyond the ordinary violence of a peak

but if we be eaten we shall again live and a cat will be a cat circumspect and factious

Erasure poem derived from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday 24 June 1666.

Dave Bonta

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